Which part didn't you understand? When I scrolled down to "t x"'s message, after a short delay *something* wrested control of Firefox away from me and issued a sequence of navigation commands the effect of which was to log me out of gmail, much as if I'd clicked the little down arrow by my username and then clicked "signout".
I don't know if it was something in "t x"'s message that triggered it (if so, it didn't have the same effect when I viewed it again after logging back in), but I do know that I do not appreciate having my computer hijacked. I'm sure you can understand how it's rather alarming to have your stuff just suddenly start acting on "its own initiative", right in front of your eyes, when the damned thing isn't supposed to *have* its own initiative. In any event, if anyone can shed any light on this incident I'd appreciate information. (For example: does an expert on browser security see anything in "t x"'s post, or any other in this thread, that could have triggered anything unusual in susceptible versions of Firefox? Should I wipe and reinstall this machine on the presumption that the seemingly superficial hijack left it infected with a nasty rootkit of some sort, or was it just a prank, or even a known software bug somewhere?) On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Timothy Baldridge <tbaldri...@gmail.com>wrote: > Um........wat? > On Jan 23, 2014 7:17 PM, "Cedric Greevey" <cgree...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> [meta, but about something apparently triggered by the message, from this >> thread, that I'm quoting] >> >> Why did reading this post cause gmail to go bonkers? I saw this thread >> had new articles since earlier today, brought it up, and read the previous >> message, then just after I'd scrolled down to this one, leaned back, and >> started reading it the browser just suddenly began spinning on its own and >> navigated by itself. Apparently about 10 seconds after I sat back >> *something* input a click on the little down-triangle in the upper right >> corner of the page and then clicked "sign out" because it went to the gmail >> login page. And a second or so before that the chat thingy at the left >> crashed as a popup there distracted me by appearing suddenly and saying >> something like "Oops, problem connecting to chat". >> >> I don't like having my stuff suddenly go spinning out of control like >> that. I wasn't touching the keyboard or the mouse at the time. The browser >> should not have done anything but sit there patiently displaying this page >> until *I* *CHOSE* to navigate away from it. If there is something in your >> message that hijacks the browsers of people reading it, then I would like >> you to know that I consider such a thing to be extremely poor etiquette and >> in extremely poor taste. Do not do it again. If it was not that particular >> message then I'd like to know what *did* reach into *MY* computer and start >> issuing instructions on *MY* behalf *without* *MY* permission, and how to >> stop that from ever happening again. This is *MY* copy of Firefox and it >> goes where *I* say it does, when *I* say it does it, and not a moment >> sooner. Is that absofrickinglutely clear? That is non-negotiable. Anyone >> who willfully violates this edict *will* be added to my spam filter and I >> will not see any future post by that author. Is *that* clear? >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:21 AM, t x <txrev...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> * This is the time I've heard "the one who's feeding the channel is >>> the one in charge of closing it" -- previously, my channel code was fairly >>> ad-hoc and agressive (since I need to kill many (go-loop [msg (<! ... )] >>> (when msg ...)) blocks). >>> >>> * I still feel this breaks the "conveyor belt" metaphor -- when a >>> conveyor belt shuts down, it's understandable that we after we take what's >>> on the belt, in future takes, we get nothing. >>> >>> However, when putting items on a stopped conveyor belt, messages >>> should not just *poof* vanish into the void. :-) >>> >>> * This existing semantics makes debugging annoying (perhaps this is >>> due to my lack of skill). When something should be happening, and nothing >>> is happening, I'm basically going around hunting for "where did I do a put >>> on a closed channel", whereas if it threw an exception of some form, it'd >>> be easier to handle then this "silent fail." >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Meikel Brandmeyer (kotarak) < >>> m...@kotka.de> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> probably the idea is, that the one who's feeding the channel is the one >>>> in charge of closing it. After all, they know when there is no more input >>>> available. Do you have a use case where this problem manifests? 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